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A colleague of mine complained, "When the home team is winning, they don't bother playing the bottom half of the ninth inning. I'm getting ripped off! Make them finish the game!" This led to some speculation as to how the visiting team could manage to salvage a win out of that final half-inning, given that they had no further opportunity to score ...

ton suggested that since the shell is written in C++, should have been an abstract class, and then it could have used techniques like exceptions and Inversion of Control. Okay, first of all, I'm not sure how Inversion of Control is something that requires C++, so I'm going to leave that aside. Second of all, who says the shell is written in ...